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"I've been waiting for this day for 31 years, " said Eugene A Cernan, the last astronaut to set foot on the Moon.
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Those were the first words that any human being ever spoke on another world, when Neil Armstrong was the first to set foot on the Moon in 1969.
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Being the second country to have one of its citizens set foot on the Moon (after the U.S.) would be extremely valuable in terms of publicity and prestige alone.
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NASA, the American space agency, was set up within a year and President John Kennedy took up the challenge that Americans should be the first to set foot on the moon.
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Once that flag was planted, America became the first country to set foot on the moon, and we all felt a part of that moment, watching it over and over on YouTube decades later.
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